As Palande Datar puts it, “Te devacha raan nahiye, te raanach dev aahe [it is not God’s forest; the forest itself is godly].” Initially, the reigning deity in the devrai would not even be ...

June 2003: World Heritage Centre reactive monitoring mission. The site is not protected by any legal instrument at the national level. No building regulations exist within the perimeter of the WH ...